Mehdi Hassan He announced he was leaving MSNBC during his show's final broadcast on Sunday.
“Doing this live show on MSNBC has been an absolute blast over the past three years with an amazing team of producers behind me, and with all of you watching at home, it's been a privilege,” the far-left host said at the end of the show. Shown on Sunday.
“It's been a pleasure. But as 2024 begins with the election approaching, the war still going on, and too many Trump impeachments, frankly, even to keep track of, and with that show ending, I've decided it's time for me to look for someone new,” he added. the challenge”.
“Tonight is not only the last episode of Mehdi Hassan's show, it is my last day with MSNBC. Yes, I have decided to leave.”
“To be clear, I am very proud, very proud of what we have achieved on this show, on this network. And I can't thank you all enough for your following, your support and your comments. But as I say, new year, new plans.”
He watches:
Tonight marks the end @MehdiHasanShow And @MehdiRHasanTime with MSNBC. Thank you for watching us, week after week, for the past three years. pic.twitter.com/LPybcWmFTf
– Mehdi Hasan Show (MehdiHasanShow) January 8, 2024
Last November, MSNBC canceled Mehdi Hassan's show as part of a broader change in its weekend programming lineup.
While Hasan no longer hosts his weekend show or show on the streaming service Peacock, he remains with the network in the roles of on-camera analyst and occasional fill-in host.
Semaflor reported that this decision comes after Hassan's anti-Semitic statements in the wake of the brutal attacks launched by Hamas against Israel.
It is actually a context for the coming (ongoing?) massacre of innocent Gazans who have nothing to do with that barbarism at the festival. But the fact that you only care about unarmed people in Israel, not Gaza, and I care about both, says more about you than it does about me, David. https://t.co/7y3WroTmLe
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) October 9, 2023
Semaphore reported:
MSNBC has quietly removed three of its Muslim anchors from the anchor chair since the Hamas attack on Israel last Saturday amid a wave of American sympathy for Israeli terror victims.
The network did not air a scheduled Thursday night episode of The Mehdi Hassan Show on the Peacock streaming platform. MSNBC also mirrored the plan to Ayman Mohieldin To fill in this week on the network for host Joey Reid's show at 7pm on Thursdays and Fridays. Mohieldin, an Egyptian-American journalist and veteran correspondent for NBC News, has covered the conflict from Gaza for two years. In 2021, he forcefully questioned Israeli leaders about strikes in the region. Two network sources with knowledge of the plans told Semafor that the network also plans to fill Alicia Menendez this coming weekend for Ali Velshia third Muslim American host, on Sunday interviewed a Palestinian Authority spokesman.
